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Rating: 8 stars

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All movies seen on 05/16/2023

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Yakuza Graveyard (1976)

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Crime | Drama

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Length 97 minutes

Actors

Tetsuya Watari | Meiko Kaji | Jirô Chiba | Hideo Murota | Takuzô Kawatani | Kin Sugai | Takako Yagi | Masaru Shiga | Nenji Kobayashi | Rocky Fujimaru | Kenji Imai | Harumi Sone | Mikio Narita | Jûkei Fujioka | Junkichi Orimoto | Nagisa Ōshima | Kei Satō | Nobuo Kaneko | Takuya Fujioka | Tatsuo Umemiya | Seizô Fukumoto | Masataka Iwao | Nobuo Yana | Yoshio Yoshida | Yasuo Matsumoto | Mineko Maruhira | Masaji Arikawa | Hideo Shimada | Teruo Fujinaga | Takaya Shimoyama | Tetsuo Ashida | Kojiro Shirakawa | Kuniomi Kitani | Takashi Shirai | Shigeru Inoue | Katsutoshi Akiyama | Yasuhiro Suzuki | Toshio Tomogane | Takashi Ienoshima | Kinji Nakamura | Shôtarô Hayashi | Tadashi Naruse | Yoshinobu Hirose | Kunijirô Yanagi | Yasumori Hikita | Kenta Dan | Kenjirô Asano | Shunji Sasaki | Ryûji Katagiri | Yukio Miyagi | Yuzuru Moritani | Kazuyuki Kosaka | Satoru Nabe | Masao Hirakawa | Yoshiyuki Arai | Ryuji Komine | Gentarô Mori | Yoshiaki Yabe | Junpei Arishima | Shinji Oda | Tetsuo Fujisawa | Kazuo Kasahara | Masami Kodaka

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

My Radiance Films release arrived today so gave it a spin. I believe I own* this on DVD from back in the day but this release is very sharp. I LOVE Fukasaku’s chaotic handheld filming in the seventies. So much energy captured that is palpable in the viewing. Was worried that Meiko Kaji was gonna have a shitty bit part but she’s a main character here and is stunning as ever in a few sequences.

Tetsuya Watari is terrific as the primary character. So different and grizzled from his Tokyo Drifter role which I just revisited recently. Yet still charismatic as ever and iconic w/those aviator sunglasses.

*apparently just have a copy from a Netflix rental according to my previous log of this film.

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